I bought this vase yesterday with another piece of signed Mdina glass. This vase though has no Mdina mark and a polished pontil mark. It is a large size at 10.5" Could anyone point me in the right direction please.Thanks in advance.

Wow, and wow again, I wasn't even sure it was Mdina, I thought maybe MDG! I am really chuffed, thanks so much for your help and info. I can't believe it's such an early piece, so would this be early 70's? For a change my wife actually commented that it was 'quite nice compared to some of the others' so I guess I might get to put this out!!

Well, Michael Harris left Mdina in '71. This really does look like his work.Rosenthal was a range he did develop specifically for the American market - and many of the bits that went to the states were signed - it was something the american market wanted. I would think unsigned bits are ones that possibly stayed in Europe.Polished out round pontil makrs do not appear on things made after MH left, even though Vicente Boffo was still there.

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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."-- Confucius

Malta Decorative Glass.A short-lived company, set up by the Maltese government with funding from China, inspired by the success of Mdina. Vicente Boffo was told to leave Mdina and train a load of brand-new apprentices at MDG, or to leave Malta. However, it did not achieve the success that Mdina did and died a death.

It has been assumed it probably started around '77, because Wolfie found out from Joseph Said that Vicente Boffo was at Mdina until then. We don't know how long it did last, just that it wasn't very long.

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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."-- Confucius